Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to introduce a stalkers' register.

This Government is committed to tackling stalking and ensuring that the right tools are in place to protect victims of this deeply disturbing crime. That is why we have strengthened the law by making stalking an offence in its own right and are currently taking steps to introduce a new civil stalking protection order.

Convicted perpetrators of stalking are already recorded on systems such as the Police National Computer and we have no current plans to create a separate stalkers register.